Aloha to the residents of the nation pictured above and anyone else who happens to read this blog post. As most of you know, I’ve been on a journey to reach a healthy state of procrastination. During my search for intriguing and useful information that I would like to relay to all of you, I noticed something. Many of the articles that talk about procrastination and how to stop procrastinating aren’t very appealing to the average procrastinator.
Most aren’t too long so you shouldn’t lose interest in them too quickly, and some are fairly entertaining. But many aren’t very attractive to people trying to change. Of course for those actively seeking a solution to their lollygagging ways this won’t matter, but to the Procrastinators who don’t have a burning urge to change this can be off putting.
Most aren’t too long so you shouldn’t lose interest in them too quickly, and some are fairly entertaining. But many aren’t very attractive to people trying to change. Of course for those actively seeking a solution to their lollygagging ways this won’t matter, but to the Procrastinators who don’t have a burning urge to change this can be off putting.
According to Jay Heinrichs, in his book Thank You for Arguing, “In which you get an audience to do something or to stop doing it- is the most difficult. It requires a different level of emotion, one of desire.”(pg 25) In two different web posts I found equally helpful advice for a reforming procrastinator, such as myself, but I found that one was more appealing and kept my interest longer than the other.
In Mind Tools’ Overcoming Procrastination, I found that their article was very informative, but didn’t give me any push towards actually accomplishing any of the tasks they laid out. In Entrepreneur's 15 Ways to Overcome Procrastination and Get Stuff Done, I found a charge put forth by the article. They challenge “If you never start, you’ll never have a chance to fail. But you’ll never have a chance to succeed, either. So stop pretending you haven’t failed by not trying. Stop procrastinating and go for it.” This charge instills a get up and go feeling into those who read it and it caught my attention.
In Mind Tools’ Overcoming Procrastination, I found that their article was very informative, but didn’t give me any push towards actually accomplishing any of the tasks they laid out. In Entrepreneur's 15 Ways to Overcome Procrastination and Get Stuff Done, I found a charge put forth by the article. They challenge “If you never start, you’ll never have a chance to fail. But you’ll never have a chance to succeed, either. So stop pretending you haven’t failed by not trying. Stop procrastinating and go for it.” This charge instills a get up and go feeling into those who read it and it caught my attention.
When posing a persuasive argument, you want to convince the person that they want to change, not that you want them to change. You wouldn’t tell a person trying to lose weight that they’re fat and the only way to change is your way. It would probably cause resentment. The same goes for procrastinators. We don’t want to feel threatened, especially when looking for help. But putting aside my preferences, check out both sites to see their steps to stop procrastinating. It doesn’t matter which you use, as long as do use one.